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Month: January 2011

Basic Research/Public Discourse

Why can’t we just say what we think about basic research?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

The second important flaw in the usual antithesis is that these two widespread and ancient modes of thinking about science, pure versus applied, have tended to ...

Economics

Science of science measurement

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

I should have linked to this earlier, but here’s the webcast and white papers from a 2-day NSF workshop on the science of science measurement. Rush Holt&#...

Society/STS

The fallacy of attribution

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

I think, on some level, when we marvel at how the world has become more egalitarian, we think about King and Lincoln. But do we think about that changes relatio...

Public Discourse

The importance of sound bites, Ctd.

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

For yet another reason why Ta-Nehisi Coates is my favorite blogger, here he is echoing my call for better sound-bites: To be, all at once, accurate, concise and...

Intelligent Design

The dangers of creationism

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Praj / 3 Comments

To continue with creationism, here’s Michael Pearl: It is one thing to reject Creationism and ID; it is another thing to have good reasons for rejecting C...

Philosophy/Society

Maybe the scientific method just isn’t that powerful

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Praj / 12 Comments

But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: cl...

Politicization/Public Discourse

The futility of improving democratic discourse

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

I’ve spent a lot of time with my head in the 19th century, and one thing that is immediately clear is that real argument has not replaced vicious name-cal...

About this Blog

One year of blogging!

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

So apparently WordPress.com thinks I did okay in my first year of blogging.  Frankly, I’m quite proud of what I accomplished and hope to do more this year...

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